Alexandre Massura Neto (born 19 June 1975) is a retired male freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996.
[citation needed] At the 1995 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) held in Rio de Janeiro, Massura won the gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle, along with Gustavo Borges, Fernando Scherer and André Cordeiro,[1] with a time of 3m12s42.
[2] At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Massura came close to winning a medal, reaching the 4×100-metre freestyle final, and staying in 4th place.
On 20 December, shortly after the end of Jose Finkel Trophy, the quartet formed by Fernando Scherer, Carlos Jayme, Alexandre Massura and Gustavo Borges, in order, fell the pool at Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama and they got the 3:10.45 time, that would only be broken in the year 2000 by the team of Sweden.
[4][5] At the 1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Hong Kong, Massura reached the final of the 100-metre backstroke, finishing in 5th place.